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"Jim Holsenback" <jho### [at] hotmail com> wrote in message
news:46294571$1@news.povray.org...
> Hola,
>
> Has anyone had any experience with Ubuntu's version of Linux? Kind of had
it
> MS and all those freekin' butches that end up breaking more than they fix.
> So I've decided to look start looking for alternatives. I came across
Ubuntu
> while reading an article .... hey they price is right (free .... open
> source).... they even picked up the postage for the install CD's. Anyway
> .... if anyone has comments .... war stories .... whatever. I'd appreciate
> it.
>
> Ciao Jim
>
>
Yes. Ubuntu is great. I've been running it for maybe 1.5 years now. Before
that I was switching a bit looking for a good x86_64 distribution and this
ended up being the best at the time. Ubuntu has the only software/package
manager that I've prefered to use over compiling my own stuff. All others
seemed to break at some point, but Synaptic (layered on top of apt) handles
everything nicely.
As far as the Ubuntu/Kubuntu thing, it's a matter of which is default (Gnome
or KDE). You can still have both installed and run applications designed for
either. At some point in the past 4 months I dropped both and was using
Enlightenment 17-alpha (for alpha level software it never crashed once). I
recently switched back to Gnome for minor aesthetic reasons.
On a side note, I also started using GnuCash and the OpenOffice spreadsheet.
Both work quite nicely.
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